If you're true blue British it's a jerkin. (Which, I only now realise, is a somewhat ambiguous description.)… (View Post)

Might have changed status, as SKS's school did (with much misleading shite from Tories about it). And on checking, it was indeed local authority and free till the first fee payers came in in 197… (View Post)

Also the cultivar used. Farm cultivars tend to be easy to harvest by machine, crop at specific times, don't bruise so easily (where relevant), etc.; allotment ones often chosen for flavour, and … (View Post)

My family used to go on a Scottish seaside holiday in what must have been (thinking back) a NBR 6-wheeler brake coach off its wheels and on brick piers, which was gradually accreted onto in the manne… (View Post)

There's one specialist in Edinburgh, but I have rather too many books for that to be convenient, so your post may turn out to be a lifesaver! (View Post)